K3WWP's CW Stories

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Neal - WA6OCP

A few months ago, a local ham friend and I were chatting about CW. While I have never considered that I could really be a CW operator, I said that I would like to work on my CW. He was coming back to the hobby after an absence of many years and wanted to regain his CW skills. I had heard him on the air and knew he was a good op. The bottom line is that we started some CW skeds, and they were a lot of fun. Consequently, my last SSB QSO was on May 14. In one month, I had more CW contacts than I could find in my log from 1992 thru 2003. I have no desire to go back to sideband and the types of QSOs that are all too common there.

I can, and do, operate QRP at times, but mostly I default to 'fifty is nifty' on my 746PRO. My 706MKIIG memories are all programmed for CW frequencies like the 746PRO. Nothing fancy on antennas; a 10-20 vertical and another to handle 30-80, and 160 with difficulty.

Do I love CW? I belong to FISTS, GACW, JARL A1 Club, and CTC. CW forever!

The Code Practitioner's Psalm

The Code is my mode, I shall not want fone
It causes me to lay down pure tones
It leads me beside quiet frequencies
It restores my communication
It guides me in paths of
spectral purity for its name's sake.

Even though I tune through the
band in the shadow of fone
I will fear no QRM,
for the Code is with me;
its key and its paddle, they comfort me.

A QSO is prepared before me in the
presence of my fellow amateurs.
My head is filled with the Code;
my copy overflows.

Surely accuracy and speed will follow
me all the days of my license,
and I will dwell in the house of
Morse forever.

WA6OCP

73 es CUL, Neal WA6OCP

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